Get this: Buttigieg likes drinking beer, lifting weights, splitting wood...and he's gay!!!
He continued: “Masculinity establishes a default place, and that place is being shifted and threatened by modernity. A man as the head of the household. The only one who earns income. The default leader in any social or political organization.”In other words, our culture is so entrenched in patriarchy that any deviation from it represents the terror of progress, which is something conservatives want to avoid as a matter of course.
OK, so Buttigieg, a smart guy, said a smart thing. What’s the problem? Well, he went on to slightly belabor the point about his own use of an electric vehicle and his mixing of meat with vegan cuisine , only to land on the greater point of shaking things up by living your own life against the grain. Said the artist formerly known as Mayor Pete:
Clearly, we have a chance to rewrite some of these easy gender tropes. My life happens to cut across them. I like drinking beer, lifting weights, splitting wood. I’m also gay and I like playing piano. I do a lot of the caregiving for our toddlers and other things that supposedly aren’t masculine.And here’s where the argument plays itself off with the most distracting tune possible.
.” The issue isn’t Buttigieg’s identity or that his life could contain the space to play piano and fondle another man’s penis; it’s that his relentless marketing of his identity causes him to say dumb, shortsighted stuff that makes him sound like his exposure to other gays only comes in the form of what he’s heard coming from the TV in the other room that Chasten’s watching (Pete famously
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